New Leader Chosen to Succeed Tupper Thomas at Prospect Park Alliance
Emily Lloyd, former head of the both the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Sanitation, is stepping into some big shoes. The City Room has all the details…
Emily Lloyd, former head of the both the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Sanitation, is stepping into some big shoes. The City Room has all the details…
Sorry — half-dozen.
“Nothing new could get done”?? The park just embarked on a massive restoration of the SE lake shore and is preparing to demolish the rink and build a huge new one with green roof etc. Biggest new thing to come along in quite awhile, and it was initiated under TT’s stewardship.
I doubt seriously there was ever any substance to the Markowitz rumor. Even if the job pays another hundred grand and doesn’t have term limits, he would never leave a job where he gets to be in the press all the time for a position where he’d have to actually do some work.
And both the Parks Department and the Prospect Park Alliance have to be aware of the substantial staff turn-over and talent-flight from Borough Hall. I think there have been four chief-of-staff and maybe a dozen communications directors in nine years. You can fool the voters but you cannot fool your own staff, and other people notice subtle things like that.
Emily Lloyd is an excellent choice. Really top-notch. Congratulations to her! and best of luck!!
The other rumor I heard was that Marty Markowitz was going to take over – what a relief that’s not happening – you know his first call would be to Bruce Ratner to see what he wanted to build on all that space!
65 years old? Sounds like a stop gap.
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Ms. Lloyd headed the Department of Environmental Protection from 2005 to 2008 and was the sanitation commissioner in the Dinkins administration from 1992 to 1994. In between, she was an executive vice president at Columbia University. Currently, she is the chief operating officer of Trinity Real Estate, the real-estate arm of Trinity Church, one of Manhattan’s biggest landowners.
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Seems like an odd choice. I guess Bloomberg – this was his call, right? – just figures any capable executive will do, a la the new schools Chancellor.
About time! I was getting tired of watching Tupper take victory laps. Park has seemed stuck for a while; nothing new could get done.
‘to Success’?